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Retrieve email messages attachments from Outlook[PowerAutomate Desktop]

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Posted on by olinaying 2

Hi everyone,

    There is more Unread mails with attachments in my outlook ,their Subject contains , From contains, Account are same except the attachment is different .

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I use retrieve email messages from outlook and want to save these attachments in different folders, but I find the attachments are saved in the same folder.

How can I solve it? 

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    Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @olinaying 

     

    Since you have specified the variable in the save attachments into field, so it will save attachments to that folder specified under that variable. 

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    So if want to save attachments under different folder, make sure that you are iterating that variable , instead of fixing it with constant variable value 🙂

     

    Hope it helps 

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    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    Or you can iterate it after. So, if you retrieve emails and all attachments go to that folder, think of that as a staging area, and as you process each email, you can move the attachments. A simple example would look like this:

     

    Retrieve Emails (with attachments saved to %Staging%
    For Each %CurrentItem% in %RetrievedEmails%
        Switch %CurrentItem.From% (note, this is the wrong syntax, but you get the idea, it’s something like .”[From]” - there are lots of a

    posts on it.)

            Case *aol.Com

                Set %SaveFolder% to C://AOL

            Case *IBM.com

                Set %SaveFolder% to C://IBM
        Move File %CurrentItem.Attachments% to %SaveFolder%

    End (for each)

     

    good luck

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